Review: DYING: Reborn - Nintendo Switch Edition - A Poorly-Made Horror Title That's Criminally Low On Scares

Dead on arrival.

Horror has enjoyed quite the renaissance over the last few years, and that now synonymous first-person spin has helped up the realism and make the likes of Outlast: Bundle of Terror, Amnesia and even Resident Evil terrifyingly relevant once more. Of course, for every PT or Layers of Fear: Legacy there’s always going to be those games that don’t quite hit the mark, or trade tension and uncertainty for the occasional chuckle or roll of the eye.

DYING: Reborn - Nintendo Switch Edition genuinely wants to be an unsettling experience. It even occasionally manages it thanks to some strong background sound design, but a mixture of overly obtuse puzzles and some hilariously cheesy voiceover work ultimately serve to undo those good (or should that be bad?) intentions. There are glimmers of a decent game here, they’re just outnumbered by far too many genre cliches and wonky mechanics.

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